Found in Guyana and southeastern Venezuela in open areas on shrubs and in bromeliads at elevations of 2300 to 2900 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestro/lithophyte with an erect, often branched, fairly stout, subterete stem carrying a few, fairly thick, leathery, rigid, linear, acute, rough but shiny above, often apically hooked, margins generally recurved, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, to 4" [10 cm] long, shortly paniculate, several flowered inflorescence.